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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1911179, member: 37498&quot;]I am not necessarily &quot;advocating for their destruction&quot;, but rather trying to minimize the effects of destruction on the coin collecting community by steering them towards common dates and already damaged coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the second point, the number of coins being destroyed will decrease as the number of well circulated or damaged specimens decreases.&nbsp; There will come a point where all decent specimens are held by collectors.&nbsp; Economics will keep people from destroying rare coins to make jewelry at any significant rate because they will be worth more as unmolested coins.&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t necessarily mean they have to reach $5000+ like the 1916 d&#039;s, but 2-3 times melt is usually enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 100 years, Mercury dimes will still be &quot;easy to obtain&quot; by collectors.&nbsp; It might be hard (expensive) to put together a complete set of all years and mint marks, but the destruction of even 90% of the 1944&#039;s wouldn&#039;t make that set hard to complete, it would be the already scarce 1916 d&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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